Adam Leaver
@adamleaver.bsky.social
Prof of Accounting & Society at Uni of Sheffield; Head of Subject Group; Director of CRAFiC & The Audit Reform Lab; veteran soulboy.
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An incredible effort from @danieldylanwray.bsky.social on this. 150+ interviews, covering nearly 70 years, this is THE book on one of THE great cities for music. Very proud to be Dan's publisher 👊 #SHEFFIELD
This - finally - is the definitive musical history Sheffield so richly deserves.
GROOVY, LAIDBACK AND NASTY is @danieldylanwray.bsky.social's authoritative and hugely entertaining story of the city, told through its independent artists, scenes and spirit.
Coming May 2026 geni.us/GroovyLaidba...
GROOVY, LAIDBACK AND NASTY is @danieldylanwray.bsky.social's authoritative and hugely entertaining story of the city, told through its independent artists, scenes and spirit.
Coming May 2026 geni.us/GroovyLaidba...
November 20, 2025 at 10:36 AM
An incredible effort from @danieldylanwray.bsky.social on this. 150+ interviews, covering nearly 70 years, this is THE book on one of THE great cities for music. Very proud to be Dan's publisher 👊 #SHEFFIELD
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I've spoken with policyholders who are fearing life-changing losses.
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
When Wall Street’s Insurance Playbook Goes Wrong
Almost a decade after a private equity firm began reshaping a struggling life insurer, authorities are grappling with a $2.2 billion shortfall. Policyholders fear life-changing losses.
www.bloomberg.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I've spoken with policyholders who are fearing life-changing losses.
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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OBR to downgrade UK productivity.
UK at or near bottom of the OECD investment league for 30 yrs.
Problem: City has short term horizons, direct state investment neutered.
China invests 40.4% of GDP in productive assets, India 30.5%, UK 18.2%, OECD average 23%.
Must abandon neoliberal constraints.
UK at or near bottom of the OECD investment league for 30 yrs.
Problem: City has short term horizons, direct state investment neutered.
China invests 40.4% of GDP in productive assets, India 30.5%, UK 18.2%, OECD average 23%.
Must abandon neoliberal constraints.
OBR productivity forecast may add £20bn to Budget hole
The OBR is understood to have downgraded the UK's productivity level in early Budget forecasts
www.bbc.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 7:22 AM
OBR to downgrade UK productivity.
UK at or near bottom of the OECD investment league for 30 yrs.
Problem: City has short term horizons, direct state investment neutered.
China invests 40.4% of GDP in productive assets, India 30.5%, UK 18.2%, OECD average 23%.
Must abandon neoliberal constraints.
UK at or near bottom of the OECD investment league for 30 yrs.
Problem: City has short term horizons, direct state investment neutered.
China invests 40.4% of GDP in productive assets, India 30.5%, UK 18.2%, OECD average 23%.
Must abandon neoliberal constraints.
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“That’s the biggest misunderstanding in this country of the housing crisis. That it’s a crisis reserved for the poorest people in insecure jobs…”
@drabioconnor.bsky.social talks to BBC Panorama’s Anita Rani as part of their investigation into the UK housing crisis.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
@drabioconnor.bsky.social talks to BBC Panorama’s Anita Rani as part of their investigation into the UK housing crisis.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Panorama - The Race to Build 1.5 Million Homes
The government’s made a very big promise: to build 1.5 million new homes in England by 2029. Anita Rani and Justin Rowlatt travel the length of the country to find out if it can be done.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
“That’s the biggest misunderstanding in this country of the housing crisis. That it’s a crisis reserved for the poorest people in insecure jobs…”
@drabioconnor.bsky.social talks to BBC Panorama’s Anita Rani as part of their investigation into the UK housing crisis.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
@drabioconnor.bsky.social talks to BBC Panorama’s Anita Rani as part of their investigation into the UK housing crisis.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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B&M finance chief quits over £7m accounting error.
Its Audit & Risk Committee oversees effectiveness of internal control, internal/external audit. External auditors KPMG collected £1m in 2024/25.
£7m is a big sum to miss.
What else is flawed in B&M governance?
Its Audit & Risk Committee oversees effectiveness of internal control, internal/external audit. External auditors KPMG collected £1m in 2024/25.
£7m is a big sum to miss.
What else is flawed in B&M governance?
B&M shares plunge as finance chief quits over ‘embarrassing’ accounting error
The discount retailer said the issue has been resolved but will have a financial impact
www.independent.co.uk
October 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
B&M finance chief quits over £7m accounting error.
Its Audit & Risk Committee oversees effectiveness of internal control, internal/external audit. External auditors KPMG collected £1m in 2024/25.
£7m is a big sum to miss.
What else is flawed in B&M governance?
Its Audit & Risk Committee oversees effectiveness of internal control, internal/external audit. External auditors KPMG collected £1m in 2024/25.
£7m is a big sum to miss.
What else is flawed in B&M governance?
A big welcome to @drabioconnor.bsky.social who has joined CRAFiC as a @leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Fellow. Her project is titled: ‘Following urban assetisation: a comparative theory of local state restructuring’ - I'm really looking forward to the findings... sheffield.ac.uk/management/p...
O'Connor, Abi , Dr
sheffield.ac.uk
October 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
A big welcome to @drabioconnor.bsky.social who has joined CRAFiC as a @leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Fellow. Her project is titled: ‘Following urban assetisation: a comparative theory of local state restructuring’ - I'm really looking forward to the findings... sheffield.ac.uk/management/p...
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My column in tomorrow's paper:
Starmer and Badenoch are handling the far-right march all wrong
A look back to the days of Enoch Powell suggests a better model
www.ft.com
September 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
My column in tomorrow's paper:
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Scrapping of audit watchdog for English councils ‘led to soaring costs and chaos’. Valuable report from @adamleaver.bsky.social & colleagues at the Audit Reform Lab
www.theguardian.com/business/202... (Full report here auditreformlab.group.shef.ac.uk/administrati...)
www.theguardian.com/business/202... (Full report here auditreformlab.group.shef.ac.uk/administrati...)
Scrapping of audit watchdog for English councils ‘led to soaring costs and chaos’
High critical report finds that instead of promised annual saving of £100m, fees have rocketed amid financial crisis
www.theguardian.com
August 19, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Scrapping of audit watchdog for English councils ‘led to soaring costs and chaos’. Valuable report from @adamleaver.bsky.social & colleagues at the Audit Reform Lab
www.theguardian.com/business/202... (Full report here auditreformlab.group.shef.ac.uk/administrati...)
www.theguardian.com/business/202... (Full report here auditreformlab.group.shef.ac.uk/administrati...)
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My column for Real Britain | The Mirror
➡️Brum bin workers are being told to take up to £8,000 worth of pay cuts or face #FireAndRehire while councillors' allowances increase and government commissioners – brought in to control the council – earn an eyewatering £1,200 a day.
➡️Brum bin workers are being told to take up to £8,000 worth of pay cuts or face #FireAndRehire while councillors' allowances increase and government commissioners – brought in to control the council – earn an eyewatering £1,200 a day.
August 9, 2025 at 9:48 AM
My column for Real Britain | The Mirror
➡️Brum bin workers are being told to take up to £8,000 worth of pay cuts or face #FireAndRehire while councillors' allowances increase and government commissioners – brought in to control the council – earn an eyewatering £1,200 a day.
➡️Brum bin workers are being told to take up to £8,000 worth of pay cuts or face #FireAndRehire while councillors' allowances increase and government commissioners – brought in to control the council – earn an eyewatering £1,200 a day.
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Successfully co-organized a 2-day workshop on the theme of Valuation, Space & Power this week, bringing together a brilliant group of scholars in Sheffield. Thank you to all the participants and fellow organizers @callumny.bsky.social @richmgoulding.bsky.social @adamleaver.bsky.social & Dan Tischer!
June 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Successfully co-organized a 2-day workshop on the theme of Valuation, Space & Power this week, bringing together a brilliant group of scholars in Sheffield. Thank you to all the participants and fellow organizers @callumny.bsky.social @richmgoulding.bsky.social @adamleaver.bsky.social & Dan Tischer!
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This week, I was in Sheffield for the WS on @valspacepower.bsky.social. Met many ECRs interested in how economic value is constructed, where it is located, and who captures it. Thanks to Callum Ward, @adamleaver.bsky.social, @richmgoulding.bsky.social and @eyeofraf.bsky.social for the organisation!
June 25, 2025 at 12:08 PM
This week, I was in Sheffield for the WS on @valspacepower.bsky.social. Met many ECRs interested in how economic value is constructed, where it is located, and who captures it. Thanks to Callum Ward, @adamleaver.bsky.social, @richmgoulding.bsky.social and @eyeofraf.bsky.social for the organisation!
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Rafaella Lima @eyeofraf.bsky.social kicking us off by explaining how our workshop came about through a shared interest in value, calculation, critical accounting and economic geography
June 23, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Rafaella Lima @eyeofraf.bsky.social kicking us off by explaining how our workshop came about through a shared interest in value, calculation, critical accounting and economic geography
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This was such a fun and stimulating workshop. Thank you to the whole organisational team and all the presenters - I learnt lots and enjoyed my trip to Sheffield 🙏
June 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
This was such a fun and stimulating workshop. Thank you to the whole organisational team and all the presenters - I learnt lots and enjoyed my trip to Sheffield 🙏
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Thames Water on collision course with govt over exec bonuses.
TW with £21bn debt, history of abuses & criminal convictions insists that it will pay bonuses, now calls them “retention payments”.
Govt must cancel it's licence, let it go bankrupt, prosecute execs, nationalise.
archive.ph/FpLe0
TW with £21bn debt, history of abuses & criminal convictions insists that it will pay bonuses, now calls them “retention payments”.
Govt must cancel it's licence, let it go bankrupt, prosecute execs, nationalise.
archive.ph/FpLe0
Thames Water on collision course with government over bonuses
Utility claims new legislation to block bonuses will not capture ‘retention payments’
www.ft.com
May 17, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Thames Water on collision course with govt over exec bonuses.
TW with £21bn debt, history of abuses & criminal convictions insists that it will pay bonuses, now calls them “retention payments”.
Govt must cancel it's licence, let it go bankrupt, prosecute execs, nationalise.
archive.ph/FpLe0
TW with £21bn debt, history of abuses & criminal convictions insists that it will pay bonuses, now calls them “retention payments”.
Govt must cancel it's licence, let it go bankrupt, prosecute execs, nationalise.
archive.ph/FpLe0
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Agree people don’t know what councils do etc. But I also think the public is reasonable enough to question why the local area looks dirty/declining etc while council tax bills have gone up and up and up and up and up. Politically it’s therefore currently ripe for undeliverable promises
April 17, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Agree people don’t know what councils do etc. But I also think the public is reasonable enough to question why the local area looks dirty/declining etc while council tax bills have gone up and up and up and up and up. Politically it’s therefore currently ripe for undeliverable promises
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February 3, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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An exciting new opportunity for ECRs - a call for papers is out now for our 'Valuation, Space & Power' workshop (see below)
April 3, 2025 at 7:06 AM
An exciting new opportunity for ECRs - a call for papers is out now for our 'Valuation, Space & Power' workshop (see below)
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Congratulations to @savannahcox.bsky.social on this fascinating new paper on 'infrastructural time', and how resilience measures are shaped by earlier investments....
First paper from a new project on the politics of energy crises and transitions in South Africa is out! I use the analytic of infrastructural time to make sense of (1) how such crises emerge and(2) the specific formations of "resilience" developed in response.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The Infrastructural Time of resilience: Accounting for new (and old) forms of government in the South African grid
Temporality has long, if implicitly, structured geographic research on resilience—whether by underwriting scholarly endeavors to show how resilience a…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Congratulations to @savannahcox.bsky.social on this fascinating new paper on 'infrastructural time', and how resilience measures are shaped by earlier investments....
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Real household disposable incomes (RHDI) is forecast to rise by just £1,200 over the course of the 2020s.
That's less than it grew over the course of the 2010s,when it rose by £2,900.
That's less than it grew over the course of the 2010s,when it rose by £2,900.
March 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Real household disposable incomes (RHDI) is forecast to rise by just £1,200 over the course of the 2020s.
That's less than it grew over the course of the 2010s,when it rose by £2,900.
That's less than it grew over the course of the 2010s,when it rose by £2,900.
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Report by @adamleaver.bsky.social and colleagues.
"This failure is partly the result of national policies, where national planning guidance in 2012 strengthened the capacity of developers to avoid affordable housing requirements on the grounds of ‘viability’47.
www.sheffield.ac.uk/crafic/news/...
"This failure is partly the result of national policies, where national planning guidance in 2012 strengthened the capacity of developers to avoid affordable housing requirements on the grounds of ‘viability’47.
www.sheffield.ac.uk/crafic/news/...
New report critiques supply-side urban development
The new report, written by Richard Goulding, Adam Leaver and Jonathan Silver, critically examines the supply-side, property-led urban development model, using Manchester as a case study.
www.sheffield.ac.uk
March 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Report by @adamleaver.bsky.social and colleagues.
"This failure is partly the result of national policies, where national planning guidance in 2012 strengthened the capacity of developers to avoid affordable housing requirements on the grounds of ‘viability’47.
www.sheffield.ac.uk/crafic/news/...
"This failure is partly the result of national policies, where national planning guidance in 2012 strengthened the capacity of developers to avoid affordable housing requirements on the grounds of ‘viability’47.
www.sheffield.ac.uk/crafic/news/...
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once more with feeling - failing to repair a roof is more expensive than repairing it, but only one of these costs appears in the accounts and is scored by the five year forecast.
March 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
once more with feeling - failing to repair a roof is more expensive than repairing it, but only one of these costs appears in the accounts and is scored by the five year forecast.
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@adamleaver.bsky.social & @richmgoulding.bsky.social setting out their work on Manchester's property led development model is valuable to anybody interested in how capital flows build, sustain and escape urban space in the UK & beyond. But what are the alternative models?
Episode 2 of #UrbanRadar is now LIVE!
Dive into the informative conversation with @goodfellowtom.bsky.social @itsbethperry.bsky.social @pillmad.bsky.social @adamleaver.bsky.social @richmgoulding.bsky.social on #Manchester ‘s model of property-led development.
Available here-
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Dive into the informative conversation with @goodfellowtom.bsky.social @itsbethperry.bsky.social @pillmad.bsky.social @adamleaver.bsky.social @richmgoulding.bsky.social on #Manchester ‘s model of property-led development.
Available here-
lnkd.in/g-cxJ-B4
Episode 2: Is Manchester's model of urban development a good blueprint for growth?
Urban Radar · Episode
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March 14, 2025 at 1:43 PM
@adamleaver.bsky.social & @richmgoulding.bsky.social setting out their work on Manchester's property led development model is valuable to anybody interested in how capital flows build, sustain and escape urban space in the UK & beyond. But what are the alternative models?
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UK hoping to work with China to counteract Trump’s climate-hostile policies
UK hoping to work with China to counteract Trump’s climate-hostile policies
Ed Miliband travels to Beijing saying co-operation with China vital to protect future generations, as US and Russia push for expansion of fossil fuels
* Ed Miliband: ‘The global battle against the climate crisis needs China’
The UK is hoping to…
www.theguardian.com
March 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
UK hoping to work with China to counteract Trump’s climate-hostile policies
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🧵 I want to follow up this earlier thread by examining why the USA finds itself in the state it does at the moment; the process of disordered discourse capturing state institutions and how it inevitably results in a slide towards authoritarianism, a process we're seeing unfold before our very eyes.
What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
March 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
🧵 I want to follow up this earlier thread by examining why the USA finds itself in the state it does at the moment; the process of disordered discourse capturing state institutions and how it inevitably results in a slide towards authoritarianism, a process we're seeing unfold before our very eyes.
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